Death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet
| Date | May 27, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Time | after 5:00 pm |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Cause | Accident |
| Participants | Toronto Police Claudette Beals-Clayton Reece Korchinski-Beals |
| Deaths | Regis Korchinski-Paquet |
| Inquiries | Special Investigations Unit |
| Coroner | Provincial Forensics Pathology Unit, Toronto Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador |
The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Indigenous-Ukrainian-Black Canadian woman, occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 27, 2020. Responding to multiple 911 calls from Korchinski-Paquet, her mother, and her brother, for a domestic disturbance involving punches, thrown bottles, and knives, police attended her apartment. Subsequent to the arrival of police, Korchinski-Paquet fell to the ground 24 storeys below, and died at the scene. Her family accused the Toronto Police Service of having played a role in her death, which led to a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation. The SIU announced in late August 2020 it had cleared all police officers of wrongdoing and found no evidence of police involvement in her death.
Korchinski-Paquet's death inspired a number of protests in Canada against police involvement in her death and other issues of anti-black and anti-Indigenous sentiment. These Toronto protests occurred around the same time as the George Floyd protests.